The agrapha.

Floating dominical sayings not preserved in the gospels.

The following sayings are the twenty-one cases of agrapha dealt with by
Joachim Jeremias in his book, Unknown Sayings
of Jesus, as well as most of those listed by Aurelio de Santos Otero in his
classic, Los evangélios apócrifos.

An agraphon is a saying of the
Lord that was not written down. It is a somewhat unfortunate term, since obviously the
saying was written down at some point, else how could we know about it? What
is actually meant by the term is that the saying was not written down in the canonical
gospels. Also included in this list are several that are attributed, not to the Lord
himself, but to some unknown scripture; these sayings make the list for their
similarity to other dominical sayings, and for the fact that sometimes Christian authors
attributed straightforward canonical sayings of the Lord to scripture rather than
to the Lord himself (refer to 1 Timothy 5.18, for instance, as apparently referencing
Luke 10.7 or something very much like it).

For this we say to you by the word of the
Lord, that we who are alive and remain to the advent of the Lord
will not precede those who have fallen asleep, because the Lord
himself, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the
trumpet of God, will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ
will rise first. Afterward we who are alive and remain will be
raptured up together with them in the clouds
to meet the Lord in the air.

Likewise again he narrates concerning the cross
in another prophet, who says: And when will these things be consummated?
The Lord says: When the tree shall lean over and stand up, and when blood
shall flow from the tree. You have again a note concerning the cross and
the who was to be crucified.

The blessing thus predicted pertains, without
[fear of] contradiction, to the times of the kingdom, when the just,
rising from the dead, will reign, when even the creation, renewed
and liberated, will produce a multitude of foods of all kinds from
the dew of heaven and the fertility of the earth, just as the elders
who saw John the disciple of the Lord remembered that they had heard
from him how the Lord would teach about those times and would say:

The days will come in which vines will grow,
each having ten thousand shoots, and on each shoot ten thousand
branches, and on each branch ten thousand twigs, and on each twig
ten thousand clusters, and in each cluster ten thousand grapes, and
each grape, when pressed, will give twenty-five measures of wine.
And, when one of those saints takes hold of a cluster, another
cluster will clamor: I am better, take me, bless the Lord through
me! Similarly a grain of wheat also will generate ten thousand heads,
and each head will have ten thousand grains, and each grain five
double pounds of clear and clean flour. And the remaining fruits and
seeds and herbiage will follow through in congruence with these,
and all the animals using these foods which are taken from the earth
will in turn become peaceful and consenting, subject to men with
every subjection.

These things Papias too, who was a earwitness of
John and companion of Polycarp, and an ancient man, wrote and
testified in the fourth of his books. For there are five books
written by him. And he adds, saying: But these things are believable
by the believers. And, he says, Judas the traitor did not
believe and asked: How therefore will such generations be brought
to completion by the Lord? The Lord said: Those who come into those
[times] will see.

And again the Lord says: Let the one who has married
not be cast out, and let the one who has not married not marry. He who has
confessed that he will not marry according to his decision of eunuchhood,
let him remain unmarried.

When therefore the Lord narrated to the disciples
that the imminent kingdom of the saints would be glorious and wondrous,
Judas, bewildered by these words, said: And who will see these things?
But the Lord said: Those who have become worthy will see these
things.

It is written in a certain gospel, which is
called according to the Hebrews, if yet it pleases one to accept it,
not as an authority, but as a manifestation of the proposed question:
The second of the rich men said unto him: Master, what good thing can
I do and live? He said unto him: O man, do that which is in the law
and the prophets. He answered him: I have kept them. He said unto him:
Go, sell all that you own and distribute it to the poor, and come,
follow me.

But the rich man began to scratch his head,
and it pleased him not. And the Lord said unto him: How can you say:
I have kept the law and the prophets? For it is written in the law:
You shall love your neighbor as yourself. And behold, many of your
brethren, sons of Abraham, are clad in filth, dying of hunger, and
your house is full of many good things, and nothing at all goes out
of it unto them.

And he turned and said unto Simon his
disciple, who was sitting by him: Simon, son of Jonah, it is easier
for a camel to enter in by the eye of a needle than for a rich man
to enter into the kingdom of heaven.

If your brother sins in word, says he,
and makes satisfaction to you, seven times a day receive him. Simon his disciple said to
him: Seven times a day? The Lord responded and said to him: Still I say to you, until
seventy times seven. For indeed in the prophets, even after they were anointed by the holy
spirit, the speech of sin was found.

Augustine.

Augustine, Against
Adversaries of the Law and Prophets 2.4.14 (it is now known
that this saying comes from Thomas 52):

[Greek portion only:] ...the evangelical word
that says: The scheme of this world is passing.

My thanks to Barry Norby for the information on Theodore Balsamo,
who lived in century XII (died circa 1204) in Contantinople.
This agraphon looks to me like a case of mistaken attribution;
it is a Pauline saying (1 Corinthians 7.31) which Theodore has
apparently attributed to the gospel(s).

Old homily.

Old English Homilies
and Homiletic Treatises of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries,
homily XVI: